[MonoDevelop] Re: Autotool Deployment Addin

[Matze Braun]

relicensed the addin as LGPL so that it can get included into svn.

Greetings,
	Matze

Am Montag, den 27.03.2006, 20:45 +0200 schrieb Matze Braun:
> Hi,
> 
> Attached to this mail is an AddIn for Autotool deployment of monodevelop
> projects. You basically right click on the assembly and monodevelop will
> create a configure.ac and a bunch of Makefile.am and wrapper scripts for
> your exe files. The thing works good enough that a project of mine with
> a few dozens .cs files spread over 7 projects in a solution can be
> successfully deployed and a "make install", "make dist" and "make
> distcheck" work nicely.
> 
> The main part of the Addin is a template engine which gets fed with
> information from the monodevelop projects. The Addin contains several
> template files for Makefile.am and configure.ac as resources. The plan
> is that the user can override these in his projects when he has special
> needs.
> 
> Things to be done:
>  - Deploy into a new directory and copy relevant files over instead of
> spreading the Makefile.ams around the project
>  - An option to let users override the templates that are used
>  - Some wizard or something that explains users on first export how to
> override templates, asks for missing info and maybe sets a default
> directory for deployment
>  - Automatically running autoreconf -i in the deployed directory
>  - An option to deploy and "make dist" in 1 go
> 
> There are some Problems for which I still have no solution:
>  - Where to get package name and package version from. For package name
> you can probably use the name of the solution, but a solution has no
> version. I could also use additional informations like a contact e-mail
> address.
>  - Files in monodevelop projects have a fixed set of properties and
> buildactions. So currently it's not possible to do custom rules to
> handle .addin.xml files in a sensible manner for example. It would be
> nice to have a way to add custom attributes to files in a monodevelop
> project.
>  - What should I do with the build  configurations? Currently I simply
> always use the Release configuration
>  - I'm not sure how to support additional languages. Sure I could add
> rules for boo or nemerle. But that would mean I have to make the plugin
> dependent on the boo and nemerle plugin to gather the compiler flags,
> having this dependency is not a good idea since many people don't have
> these plugins installed.
>  - How could I allow users to use custom templates for solution files
> (custom configure.ac template for example)
> 
> Greetings,
> 	Matze
> 
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